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Concerns regarding my son's mental health, information and advice welcome

jo and jack

Had appointment today at CAMHS with my son(15yrs old, ASD+ADHD). To discuss recent episode of low mood, agitation, anger, hearing voices etc.
My son also discuss for the first time the voices are of around 6 people, male and female. They speak negative to him, telling him to harm people(with a knife). He hasn't acted on these voices and commands.
CAMHS worker will ref for mental health screening but doesn't see depression/mental health diagnosis?
Yes I am worried, shocked and upset, I knew my son was holding stuff back from me.
Have any of you exp this type of behaviour from your children or self???

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  • School, we know is not the environment and positive experience it could be for him, but it has improved too what it was. Many discussion/letters on lack of support/disability discrimination have been had and sent too school.

    CAMHS, from our visit last week, they don't seem to that concerned with his presentation/mental health. We are seeing them again this Thurs, to see how he is.

    Advice was around keeping sharp objects out of his view/reach.

    We will be insisting on a ref to psychiatrist to further explore his mental health.

    A question that keeps going round my head. If a person is diagnosed with such conditions ASD+ADHD, and one of the areas leave the person with deficits in displaying emotions/communications. Then asking someone on the spectrum days after an event to tell someone how they felt at that particular time, how would that work. In my view (and I could well be wrong) my son is very much here and now, struggles to remember effectively some past events.

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  • School, we know is not the environment and positive experience it could be for him, but it has improved too what it was. Many discussion/letters on lack of support/disability discrimination have been had and sent too school.

    CAMHS, from our visit last week, they don't seem to that concerned with his presentation/mental health. We are seeing them again this Thurs, to see how he is.

    Advice was around keeping sharp objects out of his view/reach.

    We will be insisting on a ref to psychiatrist to further explore his mental health.

    A question that keeps going round my head. If a person is diagnosed with such conditions ASD+ADHD, and one of the areas leave the person with deficits in displaying emotions/communications. Then asking someone on the spectrum days after an event to tell someone how they felt at that particular time, how would that work. In my view (and I could well be wrong) my son is very much here and now, struggles to remember effectively some past events.

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